A Radcliffe Institute seminar was an important step in exploring how to reduce gender violence in South Asia. Organizer Jacqueline Bhabha explained there is an urgent need to consider the relation between gender and violence focusing on legal reform, civil society, and changing norms.

Dr. Mei Zhen comments on the value of working face-to-face with Harvard collaborators as a Radcliffe fellow to create a comprehensive neuronal map of the juvenile C. elegans, the pin-head sized nematode worm.

Political scientist and Radcliffe fellow Harith Hasan al-Qarawee studies state-society relations, political transitions, and identity politics in Iraq and the Middle East. The Harvard Gazette recently spoke with al-Qarawee about the rise of ISIS in Iraq.

In addition to displaying some of Child's papers, the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study will feature holdings from its cookbook collection for the "Adventures in Gastronomy" tour, including How to Eat Like a Professor on a Student's Budget.

Parts of the world are facing a new “demographic time bomb,” one that threatens skyrocketing health care and pension costs as populations age. “It was really a shocking realization that this was happening,” said Mary Brinton, whose work explores declining fertility rates in postindustrial societies.